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Southland Times, Issue 14505, 25 August 1910, Page 7

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4.GBICUZ.TUBAX. EVENTS POS WEEK ENDING AUGUST £7lh. THURSDAY, AUG 25th. Clearing sale at -Mrs llynd and Sons , Spar Bush, by .Messrs J. E. Watson and Co. Clearing sale at Mr Ronald Stacks, Otaitai Bush, Riverton, by Messrs J. R, Mills and Son. Stock sal" at "Wymlnam. Stock sale at Waikaka. FRIDAY. AUG. 20th. Horse sal" at Wintoa. Clearing sale at Mr John (Tows, New Hall, Orawia, by Messrs Dalgely and Co. MONET AND MARKETS. (By Tolcsrarh—rr-fs Association—Copyright). LONDON, August 21. Received August 21, !).55 P-m. "Wheat. —An Australian cargo sold at 3Ss. Copper —Spot, £55 10s; three monlns, £SO 6s 9d, Tin —Spot, £lO 7 IDs; three months. £l5O 2s lid Lead —£12 Us 2d. LONDON, August Copper, spot. £55 Lis 9d; three months, £SG ills. Electrolytic, £SB 7-s «']•. spot, £155 15s: three months, fine as. Shares—Bank of Australasia. 11 -t I to £116: New South Wales, £4l 10s to £4i> Ills; New Zealand. £lO to £ll H)s; Loan and Mercantile, £97. CANTERBURY STOCK EXCHANGE. (Per United Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, August 24. On Canterbury Stock Exchange to-day the following sales were reported; Bank of New Zealand, £5 ISs; Wellington Woollen Manufacturing Co., £:l 15s ILL Talisman Consolidates, 555; Walhi, £t J2s 6d; Waihi Grand Junction, 275; Ross Goldfields, 2s lid and 4s. The following sale took place on ’Change: Whltcombe and Tombs, £O. DUNEDIN GRAIN MARKET. DUNEDIN, August 24. Oats.—The market shows no change. .jerc is little demand from shippers, and Host the only business passing is in moderate-sized lines for local consumption. Prime milling, is I'Mi-d to Is lid; good to best feed. Is ‘..Did to Is BlRd: Inferior to medium, Is 7d to Is 9d. Wiieat.—Tiie - demand slackened to some extent a week ago, but since then bettor demand has been experienced, and a considerable quantity of prime Tuscan and velvet ear has changed hands at quotations. Good whole fowl wheat is not over plentiful and has fair inquiry. Prime milling velvet, 2s lid to 4s; Tuscan velvet ear, etc., 2 s 7d to 2s Sd: medium to good, 3s 5d to 2s Gd; best Whole fowl wheat, 2s Id to 2s 4d. BURNSIDE STOCK MARKET. DUNEDIN, August 24. Fat Cattle. —201 yarded. About half were good to prime, and the remainder were very inferior. Bidding was fairly brisk, but prices, excejit for prime quality, were slightly easier. Prime bullocks, £ll to £l2 10s; extra, to £ls; medium to good, £5 to £lO 15s; light, £7 10s to £S 15s; best cows and heifers, £S 10s to £lO 10s; medium, £0 5s to £2; light, £5 to to 15s. Eat Sheep.—29o penned, consisting chiefly of wethers, with several splendid lines of heavy sheep. Tiie sale opened with very slack demand, and prices were Is lower than last week's; hut the demand gradually improved and closing rates were equal to those ruling last week'. Prime wethers, IDs Gd to 21s: extra heavj, 22s to 24s 9d; medium to good, 17s to ISs tid; light, Uls to IGs; prime ewes, 15s to 17s (id: medium, 13s lo 14s lid. Fat Lambs. —215 penned. With the exception of two or three pens, the quality was only middling. Best, 15s to His; medium to good, 13s to its Gd: small and unfinished, t Is to 12s Gd. Pigs.—lll* yarded. Porkers and baeoners were in rather short supply, and met with brisk sale at 4’id to 5d per lb. Young pigs were also welt competed for at a shade above hist week's rates. Suckers. 9s to 12s; slips, 15s to 20s: stores, 21s to 255; porkers, 26s to 225: light baeoners, 22s to 425; heavy. 15s to 50s.

ADDING-TON STOCK MABKET. CLI-KISTCHUKCH, August I*4. .Store iShcep.—-The yarding was somowhat larger than last week, and was made up chieJly of hoggets of medium class. There was a weaker demand for ■wether hoggets and mixed lines, and sales of these showed a decline of tid to t»d per head, ami. in some cases, more as compared with last week’s rate. There were few pens of good ewes, soundmouth making lbs fid; four and six-tooth to 10s tid; ilorder Leice.sters to this, and old ewes, tis yd to 10s. Wether lioggets brought Its lo iif.s, the latter ligure "being for a good line of well-grown and wellwoolled lioggets, mixed sexes, 10s to His tid; good ewe hoggets, Tls id lo lis ’.si; inferior, ins Dd. \\ etliers sohl at tls Oil to Ills for good sorts, and 13s lo 13s od for lower conditioned lines. Tliere were few new season's fat lambs pen nod, and they sold Weil, making it's to -Os. , , , There was a large yarding ot tat sheep, incl tiding some good lines or wethers, and several lots of merinos. There was not much demand for export, and as the supnly was beyond butchers’ requirements, the market was easier, especially for anything Inal was not prime, the decline being fully is to Is tid per head. Thfc- ranjje ot pricers was, t-xira prime wethers to .’lt's tid; prime, lOs lo tls Oil: lighter, las 0d lo Itis tid: extra pi innewes to 2Us 7rt; prime, I tis to Ills; others, 13s Id to 17s lid; lioggets. Itis Hal to 17s ind; prime merino weldors, 1.7s till to tns tid; others. 11s 7o in 1■! -. The yarding of fat cattle totalled tt.> head, the bulk being ot goo.l lo prime quality, and included emi Nuiah Island' lines, Tliere was a \ery keen demand right through the sale in consequence of the yarding bring beiow lloaverage, and prices advanced fully ts per lOi'lb. tl.e range being tts to t:is per lijulb. Steers made 17 17s lot Hi_ 17s; extra lo £111; heifers, 17 ins to £,_ 17s tid; extra to £0 ts lid; cows, 17 las lo 17 It's; extra to £ll. There was a small yarding of store

>aule, the only line of any consequence beyond dry cows being of three mid four-year-old steers. There was not much demand, especially for • inferior sorts. Three-year-old heifers made £4 to £4 las; four-year steers, £7 las; three and a-half year steers, £7; three-year steers, £l* 13s; and dry cows, fit las to £4 las. . There was a good entry ol dairy cows, and they met with a ready sale, and prices ranged from Hi IDs to £lO, according to age and quality. There was a good demand for fat pigs of which there was a fairly large yarding, and prices were firmer. Heavy haconers made 30s to aßs, and lighter, 12s to 48s. equal to 4 1 1 <i per lh. Large porkers, ill’s to TVs; .smaller. atis to ilos, equal to I'-d U> Lq d, and in some cases to ad per lT>, Stores were slow of sale, large sorts making fils to lias; medium, 14s to "Os; smaller, 8s to l"s; and Vtconers, 3s to 10s.